gettyarchive will be marking UK LGBT+ History Month throughout February, with new discoveries, vintage works, and a closer look at the event’s 2023 theme, Behind the Lens.
Follow our bio link for more British LGBT+ history, and swipe through to see:
1. A member of the Gay Liberation Front, circa 1971 | Evening Standard/Hulton Archive
2. Irish writer, wit and playwright, Oscar Wilde, 1882 | Napoleon Sarony/Fine Art Images/Heritage Images
3. Known as "the fastest woman on water", Betty ‘Joe’ Carstairs with her engineer Joe Harris in the cockpit of her speedboat, Estelle IV, 29th May 1930 | Douglas Miller/Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive
4. British dentist Georgina Turtle (1923 - 2013) prepares to marry Christopher Somerset at St Margaret's Church in London, 13th October 1962. The former Royal Navy officer had gender affirming surgery in 1957 | Evening Standard/Hulton Archive
5. A drag act watched by drinkers in a pub in Lambeth, London, 1966 | Wolfgang Kunz/ullstein bild via...
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